Faster Catalysts Improve Hydrogen Generation
Researchers describe progress on technology for storing energy in the form of hydrogen fuel.Anyone relying entirely on solar power or wind for electricity–say, in a remote location cut off from the...
View ArticleArtificial Photosynthesis Effort Takes Root
A $122 million innovation hub could speed the development of devices for making fuel from water and sunlight.While a debate rages about the government’s role in funding energy innovation, sparked by...
View ArticleQuantum Dots Make Artificial Photosynthesis Last Longer
Nanoparticles offer a solution to a key problem with splitting water with sunlight to generate hydrogen.
View ArticleCheap Hydrogen from Sunlight and Water
Stanford researchers say new materials could help lower the cost of producing fuel with solar energy.By making a solar photovoltaic material more resilient, researchers may have found a way to make...
View ArticleA Faster and More Efficient Way to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Fuel
New catalysts turn carbon dioxide into fuels faster and more efficiently.Making carbon dioxide by burning hydrocarbons is easy. A pair of novel catalysts recently made by researchers at the University...
View ArticleA Promising Step Toward Round-the-Clock Solar Power
A simple, cheap device turns sunlight into hydrogen fuel.If solar power is to become a primary source of electricity around the world, we’ll need cheap ways to store energy from the sun when it isn’t...
View ArticleForget Hydrogen Cars, and Buy a Hybrid
Hybrids are a much more cost-effective way to reduce carbon emissions than newly released hydrogen fuel cell cars.If you want to help cut greenhouse gas emissions, you should probably skip the hydrogen...
View ArticleArtificial Photosynthesis Takes a Step Forward
Researchers have demonstrated a long-lasting device for making hydrogen from sunlight and water—but funding is running out.A U.S. government-backed research effort has taken an important step toward...
View ArticleHow Nanomaterials Can Help Make Fuel from Sunlight
Researchers say combining bacteria with nanoscale semiconductors opens a new path toward efficient artificial photosynthesis.Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, say that by combining...
View ArticleA Practical Artificial Leaf Begins to Unfold
A new prototype that turns the sun’s energy into hydrogen fuel could point the way to commercially viable artificial photosynthesis.Fuel made inexpensively through artificial photosynthesis could be...
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